Surface and Ground Water

the area of land around a river where the ground lies very low and is easily flooded

• floodplain

• delta

• confluence

• bank

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Area of land where surface water and groundwater drains into a river system.

• Runoff

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Watershed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is groundwater?

• all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground

• the water that is beneath Earth's surface

• the area of land that is drained by a river system

• a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

When water flows across the surface of the earth it is called?

• Watershed

• River

• Run Off

• Rain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Healthy (potable) pH of a fresh water source is around

• 2.0

• 3.4

• 7.0

• 9.0

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Water above Earth's surface is called

• tributary

• surface water

• watershed

• groundwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An area of land in which all of the water falling or flowing over it drains to the same location is a/an…

• watershed

• watertable

• river

• aquifer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water that is located in the ground in the pores within rock is called…

• watershed

• surface water

• groundwater

• water cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

What is the source of groundwater?

• rain, snow, melted glaciers

• ocean water

• icebergs

• water from fossilized animals

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

An underground layer of permeable rock that holds groundwater which can be extracted by drilling a well.

• water table

• aquifer

• watershed

• river

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1